Brett-James, Antony ; compiler, editor & translator:

1812 : Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia

New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1966. orig. cloth. 22x12cm, viii,312(16)pp. 14pp photoplates, 3 maps.. Some rubbing. Binding corner bumps. VG. In a torn dustwrapper.
¶ Contents: How it came to War; The Grand Army Prepares; Across the Niemen; Russia REacts; Smolensk to Borodino; The Battle of Borodino; Moscow; Retreat to the Dnieper; The Crossing of the Berezina; the Last Marches and Home-Coming. Bibliography: p. 298-305. Index.

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Book number: BOOKS016015I

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BRETT-JAMES, ANTOMY

1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia

London: Reader's Union/Macmillan, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. 308 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. Moderate wear to unmarked book. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in new archival-grade Brodart cover. Solid copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia Military. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Brett, James J., Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Assn.,

Feathers in the Wind: the mountain and the migration.

np, np, nd. G PB. Founded in 1934 HMSA is a non-profit corporation for conserving and protecting wildlife and educating the public in wildlife. This two thousand acre preserve was recently designated a Registered Natural Landmark. In 1793 Jacob Gerhardt moved into the little stone cottage along a well-established Indian trail over the mountain. In 1755 he had watched the Leni-Lenape Indians massacre his mother, father, brothers, and sisters in their sall cabin in the isolated area now known as Eckville. It sits on the base of Hawk Mountain which rides the crest of Kittatinny Ridge, from the Delaware River on the east to the Susquehanna River on the west. No one knows for sure when the first hunter appeared on the hill but it brought on a destruction that would persist for many years. Owner name, edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS051838I

BRETT-JAMES, NORMAN G.

The History of Mill Hill School. 1807-1923. (With 80 illustrations).

Reigate: Thomas Malcolmson. The Surrey Fine Art Press, nd.(c.1923). 0. The school was set up in 1807 by a committee of non-conformist merchants and ministers. They decided to place their school outside of London because of the "dangers both physical and moral, awaiting youth while passing through the streets of a large, crowded and corrupt city". Their foresight has provided generations of Millhillians with quite unique surroundings, peaceful, secure and rural and yet within minutes of links to Central London. Top edge gilt. Pp.xv/503, Latin inscription + "From his friend the Author" dated July 30 1923 to front free endpaper, 80 illustrations & photos throughout.Blue cloth with gilt title and motif to front, gilt title to spine, spine dulled. G+.

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Keywords: Norman Brett James History MILL Hill School Priestley Foundation Vince Mcclure Millhillians Officers Training Corps Athletics Old Boys Club 36198 Education

BRETT-JAMES, NORMAN G

The History of MILL Hill School 1807 - 1923

Reigate: Thomas Malcolmson, [1923]. First Revised Edition. Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover with gilt heraldic motif. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xv, 503pp + plates. 54 b/w plates.. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded. Teg .

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Book number: r1711

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Brett-James, N.G.

The life of Peter Collinson

Privately published; printed by Edgar G.Dunstan & Co. n.d.[1926].1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.V.g./No Jacket.Light foxing to prelims.Peter Collinson played an influential role in introducing new plants into cultivation in England.Many were sourced from John Bartram, the Philadelphia Quaker botanist who established the first botanic garden in the U.S.A.at Kingsessing on the banks of the Schuykill River.Collinson, an active Fellow of the Royal Society, was also a Quaker.He was in close touch with fellow Quaker botanist John Fothergill as well as with a set of wealthy landowners, many of whom were his customers, as he also owned a haberdashery business in London.287, (5) pp. In English.1.0 kg.

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Book number: 34668

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Brett-James, Antony,

LIFE IN WELLINGTON'S ARMY.

Tom Donovan, London, 1994, 1st in imprint, 358pp, 8pp half tone ills., dark green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, originally published by Allen & Unwin in 1972, a reissue giving an account of the existence of Wellington's army in the field, an army which spent only a fraction of its time fighting but, being far from home, still needing to be fed, clothed and entertained, of the relationships between the officers and men, and between the army and the local populations of Portugal, Spain, Southern France and Flanders, very faintly bumped at upper tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, short tear upper edge upper panel repaired to reverse, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 41166

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Keywords: wellington army napoleon france waterloo wellesley

Brett-James, Antony

Life in Wellington's Army.

London, George Allen, 1972. Paperback, 22 cm, 358 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 0049400428.

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BRETT-JAMES, Antony

Life in Wellington's Army

Tom Donovan Publishing Ltd, 1995. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket . Light foxing to page top edge; otherwise a clean, tidy copy in tight binding. Dust jacket lightly shelf worn. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_83725_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 1871085268

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Brett, James J.

The Mountain and the Migration: A Guide to Hawk Mountain

Paperback; 1991; Ithaca : Cornell University Press; 136pp.; Conditie: Goed; Paperback, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.; Engels; ISBN10: 0801496136, ISBN13: 9780801496134

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Book number: 365649-XL15

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Brett-James, N.G.

Walking in the Welsh Borders

W.& R.Chambers, 1942.1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.Good/Good.Jacket frayed but largely intact.Moderate foxing to edges.In English.1 kg.

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Book number: 18113

Catalogue: Wales

AIRD Catherine, AMBLER Eric, BRETT Simon, DEIGHTON Len, FRASER Antonia, GILBERT Michael, HILL Reginald, JAMES P.D., KEATING H.R.F., LOVESEY Peter, RENDELL Ruth, SIMS George ,UNDERWOOD Michael

The Man Who... Stories by Detection Club Authors

Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1992. Limited numbered de luxe edn (1 of 125) signed by all the authors and the illustrator on tipped-in b&w frontispiece plate. 8vo (8¾ x 5¾ ins). Original silver lettered quarter goatskin on marbled paper-laid sides, in matching marbled paper-laid slipcase (Fine). Pp. ix + 230, illus with tipped-in frontispiece by Gary Short (pages a little toned at edges; no other inscriptions). .

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Book number: 163631

Catalogue: Literature crime

COCHRANE, BRETT; KERR, JAMES

Twenty Eight Heroes; Inside the 1990 Kangaroo Tour

Sydney, Cochrane, Brett & Kerr, James. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0646033832). Hardcover. Book, 144pp, photos throughout. Gift inscription else a fine copy Size: Folio. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Catalogue: Australiana

Keywords: 0646033832 Sports and Games History Sport & Pastimes

COSTELLO. BRETT-JAMES, Antony ed.

Edward Costello: The Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns.

Longmans, 1967. Hardcover. Ex-library, otherwise good (no markings to clean text) in dust jacket. 172pp.

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Book number: 71561

Keywords: history historical military napoleonic war wars peninsular waterloo campaign

J. B. Donne; C. E. B. Brett; W. J. Harvey; J. D. James; J. M. Russell

Five

London, John Roberts Press LTD, 1949. First edition. Paperback. A scarce anthology of nineteen poems by five Oxford poets, from the library of Brian Aldiss. The first edition of this scarce work.From the library of Brian Aldiss, with a note loosely inserted regarding the provenance from his daughter, Wendy Aldiss. Aldiss was a popular English science fiction author, an influential writer of the twentieth century. One of his short stories, 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long', was the basis for the Stanley Kubrick - Steven Spielberg 2001 film 'A. I. Artificial Intelligence&apos. He was part of the British New Wave of sci-fi, and was greatly influenced by H. G. Wells.A pamphlet containing the works of five Oxford poets, C. E. B. Brett, W. J. Harvey, J. D. James, J. M. Russell, and the editor, J. B. Donne. Poems include 'Snow', 'Dundonald Church', 'Elegy for William Bell', 'El Desdichado', 'Black Thorn to the Rose', and 'Fragments of Pain&apos. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, smart, with a few light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. A few pencil marks to the contents leaf. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 914P15

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Keywords: Five poetry j. b. donne c. e. b. brett poetry j. d. james j. m. russell None